Pittsburgh-Mt+Oliver+IU2

Pittsburgh-Mt Oliver IU2


 * 1) ===A listing of your goals as instructional coach===
 * 2) ===A listing of your challenges and strategies to overcome those challenges (use your collaboration with other coaches to address these challenges)===
 * 3) ===Assume you are successful in your efforts to help your teachers prepare students as future citizens of the world. What would your school look like?===

__//**Michael Coupland’s Individual Mission **//__

That the three schools that I am working with are able to utilize the available tools to facilitate students learning. That there are “go to” folks at schools who “own” particular technology tools and support their colleagues in learning / growing in using these tools. That the schools I currently support become self sustainable and have a process for raising tech issues and offering solutions and have forums for sharing success stories related to technology embedded instruction / student work.
 * · A listing of your goals as instructional coach **

I am short on time, as I have several schools that I am supporting. There are often issues that arise at different buildings that need addressing… prioritizing my time across teachers across schools Some teachers are a “drain” on my time… asking many intro to computer questions and expecting me to hold their hands, rather than exploring / practicing on their own. ~ I intend to utilize Skype’s screen share (per the virtual coaching breakout), to centrally support folks tech issues without having to travel to each site, eliminating much travel time to and from sites. ~ Camtasia will allow me to reproduce the steps necessary to complete a task / launch an application / solve a problem that is common across teachers / schools. I will begin to aggregate most common issues and head them off with videos that can be distributed among teachers and posted on my Moodle. ~ I intend to meet with advanced users in various applications / tools and help them to facilitate school team based PD that they will lead. I will provide the support, but I will try to cultivate their PD delivery skills / ease in working with colleagues in utilizing tech tools.
 * · A listing of your challenges and strategies to overcome those challenges (use your collaboration with other coaches to address these challenges) **

~ Teachers will utilize SendSpace.com, as organizers and invitees to schedule and sign up for time with colleagues to lean / teach tech tools. ~ Teachers will lead PD sessions with content and / or grade level teams to discuss upcoming curriculum and how to integrate technology into instruction. ~ Teachers will discuss successes and struggles with technology integration and work together to find solutions. ~ Greater sense of collegiality and shared vision around the value of technology tools in instruction.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">· Assume you are successful in your efforts to help your teachers prepare students as future citizens of the world. What would your school look like? **

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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;"> A listing of your goals as as instructional coach -Become more of a coach than the fix-it lady <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Work with teachers and students alike <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Become an expert with some of our new tools (moodle, smartboards) <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">-Create a network within the schools so that teachers will have support nearby
 * Jen Nicholson's Individual Mission**

A listing of your challenges and strategies to overcome those challenges -Challenge - There aren't people to accomplish all of these things. This is the reason that I become the fix-it lady.

-Strategy - Make how-to guides that are simple to use. If I can't be with the teacher, at least they'll get help. -Strategy - Introduce the other people that can provide support for the teachers and make sure I (and teachers) use that network to accomplish things in the right way -Strategy - Find 1 or 2 people in the building that can be considered the experts in the building, also known as over-achievers. Use them in PD to present and suggest that the teachers see them for a problem.

Assume you are successful in your efforts to help your teachers prepare students as future citizens of the world. What would your school look like? -Wow, that's a loaded question! -All of our tools and software would be functioning 100% of the time. -If there was a problem, teachers would have a list of people to see with very specific jobs so they would know who to contact. -Problems would be fixed immediately, not a month later. -I would actually sit down with teachers and collaborate with them on their lesson plans. -I'd be able to suggest steps for them to take to integrate technology effectively. -I would work with students and students would have the opportunity to show off their talents to the teacher and their classmates. -Students and teachers would both feel a sense of responsibility for the technology and they would take care of the laptops as if they were their own. -Teachers would see other as colleagues and not as competition for their jobs. -A network would be created that functioned smoothly and effectively.

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